Best 3D printer for action figures manufacture

Hello printer owners,

I'm relatively fresh in 3D printing subject and i'd like to use some help from experienced makers.

I think about getting in business as figurine sculpter/painter, with 3D printer it would be a lot easier for me to start something bigger.

My plans are focused on making detailed parts, such as good looking small and medium sized toys, figurines.

I know a thing or two already about printers, but i can't decide which will be the best - there are like thousands of new and upcoming 3D printers today :(

Also i'm quite low on budget too, as working only by myself it can't be something like an industry, either not hobbyist work - it have to be just a perfect job for one person to handle with a lot of free time.

So here i need some advices of yours about good precise printers (still don't know what's going on with this resin thing)

Thanks for help in advance :)

I think no matter what you buy for an FDM or FFM you're going to have a lot of postprocessing time sanding acetone vapor clear lacquer spraying and then painting and spraying clear again. Even if you bought a professional machine in you want to produce good-looking parts you'd have to do the same. Unless you got it into some of the SLA resin printers on the pro-poly jet which is sprayed resins

CNC answered it pretty well, either FFF with postprocessing or pay more for an SLA (to my knowledge, there's no budget-level PolyJet option).

For very small miniatures, I'd definitely say go the SLA route. In which case your options are a Form1 if you can afford it, or wait for one of the plethora of cheaper options which aren't likely to ship before the end of this year.

I would guess you could get a SLA printer as FDM will not work that well on action figures,

Its okay for a hobbyist but if you wanna get a higher quality go for SLA, I guess something like Form 1 or Titan, even tho we don't know that much about titan yet, it would give you a idea what area you should look at.



Edit: Damn feign just posted a min before me and kinda the same thing xD

Thanks for helpful answers guys!

Waiting for more info to read :)

SLA printer can produce good detail figures you might be looking for,
Or you can look into a 3d system projet printer that produce colors prints like ours.

cokreeate, what type of printer (name thanks!) do you use that produce color prints?

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Originally Posted by oklok

cokreeate, what type of printer (name thanks!) do you use that produce color prints?

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We are using the zcorp printers now know as 3d system projet printers.

Oh I see, seems like the reseller have closed down;

"As the market is flooded with resellers, we have decided that it no longer makes commercial sense for us to support sales of new ZCorp 3D printers in the UK."

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Originally Posted by oklok

Oh I see, seems like the reseller have closed down;

"As the market is flooded with resellers, we have decided that it no longer makes commercial sense for us to support sales of new ZCorp 3D printers in the UK."

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try 3dsystem

http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...action-figures

There is a guy that does this with a Mojo and he's got some really good looking and functional figures. Cost more, but your not looking to do this as a hobby right?

Edit found the link: